[Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

[Andrew Lester]

If this is the consensus, I've been blissfully unaware and the wiki needs to be updated. The Canadian tagging guidelines (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Regional_roadways_.28below_provincially_controlled.29) recommend using unclassified when not in residential areas, and that's how I've been tagging. The CANVEC imports generally use residential as you describe which has led to a lot of mis-tagged highways, but I wouldn't say this is a consensus agreement that this is how we want it to be. It’s just how the data was imported. I'm gradually re-tagging such highways in my area, but there's a lot that need to be fixed across very large areas and not many people working on it.

 

Andrew Lester

Victoria, BC, Canada

 

From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kliems at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:27 PM
To: Martijn van Exel; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

 

A few things I can think of:

 

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org <mailto:m at rtijn.org> > wrote:

* Are there any Canada-specific mapping and tagging conventions?

- There seems to be a strong consensus that what elsewhere would be highway=unclassified is highway=residential, no matter if the road is in a populated area or not.

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